But I'm definitely not sticking around. I still don't have any interest in this series and I have even less in discussing it with people. Particularly in NDB context where they favor ultra literal interpretations I've never been a fan of. I just wanted to see who was around, and engage in a little nostalgia.

Part of it is that it's also a very NBD-centric problem, and a manga problem. My interpretations are almost entirely literary, and I used the areas where feats and statements and portrayal overlap to make my arguments. That way I could translate my literary views into something coherent for the NBD's rulebook. That only works when the manga is properly coherent, but it hasn't been in a long time.

Feats, statements, and portrayals are all over the place, as is the power scaling and variances, because the series doesn't care about being coherent or consistent, or reconciling their themes among each other. So I'm not really keen on dealing with that. But! If you want to give it a go, perhaps the new generation can surpass the old.